From Our Home Correspondent 20/05/2018
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country.
Gabriel Gatehouse reflects on the lot of the reluctant courting correspondent come a royal wedding; Sarah Smith considers where the latest vote on Brexit at Holyrood leaves the Scottish First Minister as she weighs her options on advancing the SNP's principal objective; Martin Bashir assesses the Archbishop of Canterbury's lonely repentance at the Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse; Caitlin Sneddon visits an isle made famous by a girl's adventures which is now bereft of high school-age children; and Martin Vennard considers what connects a Redcar cinema and a petrified forest.
Producer: Simon Coates
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:05.0 | Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Michelle Hussein. |
| 0:10.0 | Our pieces this time include a journey to a heparadir Nile that was made famous by a fictional |
| 0:15.8 | youngster, although somewhere where there are few children to be seen today. |
| 0:21.2 | Our religion editor Martin Bashir has been reflecting on the lonely and very public |
| 0:25.9 | repentance of an Archbishop. We've been thinking about Scottish nationalists and how it is a critical |
| 0:31.9 | moment as they debate when next to go for |
| 0:34.5 | independence and we visit the seafront cinema that is facing down a tide of |
| 0:40.4 | problems but on this weekend of pomp Ceremony we do begin on the theme of Royal Nupchals. |
| 0:47.0 | I was on location for this one and for the last Prince Williams in 2011. That took place in an extraordinary period for news |
| 0:56.8 | as my colleague Gabriel Gatehouse remembers well. Already a foreign correspondent by then and used to some pretty tough environments, he suddenly found himself on unusual pastures. |
| 1:10.0 | It was the spring of 2011. For people in my line of work, this was probably the most |
| 1:15.6 | momentous spring since Prague, 1968. From Egypt to Syria, epoch defining events were unfolding. By the autumn I'd be in Libya, among |
| 1:26.3 | rebels whose clothes were stained with the blood of Colonel Gaddafi. The previous winter I'd |
| 1:31.2 | finished a year and a half long posting to Iraq. |
| 1:34.0 | I was in need of a break and I'd been offered the job of UK Affairs Correspondent for the BBC World Service. |
| 1:40.0 | It seemed like a good place to catch my breath and contemplate my next move, but no sooner |
| 1:46.0 | had I returned to London than the Arab Spring erupted. |
| 1:49.4 | I was kicking myself. |
| 1:51.8 | My job was to turn a foreign correspondence eye onto my own country. An interesting |
| 1:56.7 | challenge in principle, but in practice I had a problem. Apart from the fact that the biggest |
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